[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#851970: Bug#851969: libguestfs: Build-depends on to be removed linux-image-versatile

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, January 20, 2017 04:19:46 PM Hilko Bengen wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> thanks for your reports. I am replying to both bugs because they concern
> essentially the same issue.
> 
> > libguestfs build-depends on linux-image-versatile which is no longer built
> > from source and will be removed from unstable and testing.
> 
> From briefly looking at
> http://sources.debian.net/src/linux-latest/77/debian/control, it seems
> to me that -marvell is the only armel flavor that is going to be left --
> is that correct?
> 
> For supermin and libguestfs, we are looking for a kernel that can be
> used to boot a minimal system inside QEMU that has been constructed from
> bits of the host system. Do the linux-image-*-marvell kernels fit that
> requirement? If so, are there special parameters that need to be passed
> to qemu-system-arm?

I don't know.  I filed the bugs since (as a member of the FTP team), I'm 
working on clearing cruft due to NBS packages and this showed up in the cruft 
report [1].

You'll need to ask someone on the kernel team.

Sorry I can't be more help,

Scott K

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt
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